How To Paint Your Floor White

2 clean your wood floor.

How to paint your floor white.

If you think you can paint floors with regular wall paint you re sadly mistaken. I didn t think so anymore. I will send a photo when i am done. First consider your supplies.

And if you re planning a floor to ceiling paint party paint your floors after you paint everything. Dry the brush over the stencil with gentle even pressure. When dry position your stencil in one corner you ll want to paint yourself out of the room towards the door. By covering just a small fraction of the floor in paint the whole room gets a brand new look and feel.

Paint the floor your base color. Bare wood floors were so chic and such a staple of 90 s style that painting them over and covering them up seemed sacrilegious. We frequently recommend painting floors white or otherwise to owners on a budget who have very old tongue and groove floors that can t handle the trauma of another sanding and refinishing. For those who might balk at white floors for their perceived difficulty to clean oullette insists that s not the case.

As with the primer you can use a brush to paint hard to reach spots. When you use the right products the right primer the paint will take. Then lift the guide and move to the next position. Here paint and stencils create a precisely drawn pattern that meshes beautifully with the ornate detail of a white mantle.

Personally since i didn t sand i just swept vacuumed and mopped with a swiffer pad nothing fancy. I have some big gaps in the wood but i am going for an antique look. Dip a stencil brush in a second color and wipe it with a towel to remove excess. See how they turned out the floors were cheap solid oak floors in great need of refinishing.

When replacing floor tiles is so costly time consuming and messy a coat of paint seems like the obvious budget friendly alternative but this seemingly obvious diy solution isn t the fix all you d hope for. After all you can paint an ugly wall or an outdated door why not paint some floor tiles. Thanks for the article. Just pulled up old carpet in a bedroom and wanted to paint the floor white and have it look a bit antiquey.

If you sanded your floors then this step is especially important. Paint made specifically for floors or porches will stand up better to wear and tear than other paints. You need to remove all the sanding dust as well as any dirt grime etc. Painting tile floors seems like a common sense fix to an ugly tile problem.

Paint manufacturers offer super durable porch and floor paint products and sealers that will keep your painted floors well painted.